Smash has two Bay Area Locations. One Gym is Near Levi Stadium in Sunnyvale on Lawrence and Tasman and our other Gym is on Quimby and Capital Expressway across the street from Eastridge Mall in San Jose.

Congratulations to everyone that competed in NAGA! Smash had a great showing and the competitors brought home lots of medals. It’s amazing to see everyone’s progression. Thanks to Mario Rios, Manny Rocha, Crystina Zastrow, and Eli Sanchez for all the help coaching. Awesome day for the competitors and we know a lot of Smashers are looking forward to the US open.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Two of the Bay Area’s Largest and Most Successful Martial Arts Teams are joining to create one Martial Arts & Fitness PowerHouse! Cung Le’s USH Martial Arts of San Jose is moving! Their Coaches, Team and Students will now be training inside Smash Gyms!

Smash Gyms has two Bay Area locations! One in San Jose on Quimby and Capital Expressway across from Eastridge Mall and a Sunnyvale location on Tasman & Lawrence. Please see our website for more details! www.smashgyms.com

We are very excited about the joining of Cung Le’s Martial Arts and Smash Gyms. Two world class teams coming together to give the very best to our members and fighters. We’re looking forward to doing big things together! Thanks for all your support!

Smash Gyms is known for our unique variety of fitness and martial arts options! Our kickboxing program is a favorite class to participants of all ages and experience levels. Smash Gyms Kickboxing classes are filled with people from different backgrounds who come together to get a fun workout while learning from amazing instructors! East San Jose Kickboxing and Evergreen Kickboxing Classes are available at our Quimby Road and Capital Expressway Location! You can also train kickboxing near Levi Stadium on Tasman and Lawrence Expressway at our location on the border of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale!

Amazing Bootcamp Classes! These classes are all taught by amazing instructors for a fun and positive fitness experience! Classes will be help in both San Jose and Sunnyvale! Indoor and outdoor workouts!

Smash Gyms wrestling instructor and BJJ student, Filip Novachkov, competed in an 8 man no gi submission grappling tournament held during the Born to Fight MMA event held in Fremont, CA. Filip won every match with a dominating performance that earned him the title of tournament champion.

Earlier that day, Smash Gyms Kids Martial Arts students competed in the 2014 Santa Clara PAL Judo Invitational Tournament and after many hard fought matches, they came home with 2 gold and 1 silver. Click on the link below to check out some of the highlights from the event!

People who know Mario Rios know two things about him. He is super nice and he knows A LOT about grappling! Mario is a very caring and passionate instructor. He has been involved in wrestling, judo and BJJ for almost 20 years. This incredible experience in grappling provides a wealth of information anyone interested in advancing his or her grappling knowledge. If you take Mario’s classes you can look forward to highly detailed technical instruction explained in a way that you can easily understand and implement right away. He has helped many people advance in the grappling arts with his organized and systematic approach to grappling.

Mario started his training with grappling in 1995 while he was a student at Fresno State College. In Fresno, there were no Jiu-Jitsu studios, so he started working out his house with Jason Hannen, now a black belt at Pacific Martial Arts. Most of the techniques were drills based on Renzo and Craig Kukuk videos, since youtube was nonexistent, and information was hard to come by.

Mario Rios & Jason Hannen BJJ Black Belts

In those early days Mario sought out other Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu students who were commuting long distances to train at some of the Gracie Academies and began training regularly with them. Some of these partners were wrestlers from Fresno Pacific and Fresno State. During this time, Mario was also training at the Fresno Judo Club before moving from the area.

Mario Teaching Classes at Smash

After completing college, Mario was faced with the decision to relocate. He had two requirements, finding a job, and finding his passion, Jiu Jitsu. Mario found both and moved to the Bay Area in 1996. In the beginning, he took classes with Claudio Franca. Although he enjoyed the classes because of such a long commute to Santa Cruz, he decided to train in Mountain View at Ralphs. Training at Ralphs was a great experience. Mario was able to train with some of the premier grapplers at the time and began to really understand the dedication necessary to excel at this art.

In 1999 began training with Michael Jen. Michael’s unique approach and attention to detail was different from the Jiu-Jitsu he had experienced in his earlier training. Mario was impressed with Michael’s highly detailed instruction and his openness to share techniques.

BJJ Black Belts!

In 2010, when the first Smash Gyms opened Mario immediately became a leader in the gym and helped many people in different programs. The environment and resources that Smash provided motivated Mario to focus and push himself until he received his Black Belt in 2011 from Michael Jen. Mario believes Smash Gyms amazing instructors and members helped push him to reach his long-time goal of becoming a BJJ Black Belt. After seeing the incredible growth of Smash and the value that it has brought to our members, he decided he wanted to help open another Smash in San Jose. Mario is co-owner of San Jose Smash Gyms and will be working full-time and teaching BJJ classes along with fellow BJJ Black Belts Rudy Sanchez and Michael Jen. Mario’s goal is to bring as much value as possible to Smash members in Evergreen and East San Jose.

Smash Gyms is very proud to announce another awesome addition to our staff. Imanuel “Manny” Rocha is martial artist, athlete and personal trainer. Manny’s passion for fitness and martial arts make him a fun and popular personal trainer and coach. His willingness to help people of all fitness and experience levels have helped him grow a loyal following of students and training partners.

Manny Rocha Won his Boxing debut by KO!

Manny once weighed 289lbs and through martial arts and fitness has discovered a path to reaching his potential. After losing 90lbs he is excited to give back what he has learned along his journey to the members at Smash Gyms.

As a personal trainer Manny's work ethic is contagious!

In his goal to become a well-rounded martial artist Manny has trained and competed in boxing, jiu-jitsu, tae kwon do, kickboxing and kenpo karate. He has trained with World Champion Kickboxer and coach Mike Winkeljohn, trained with world champion boxer Danny Romero, with MMA champions Nick & Nate Diaz, and BJJ Blackbelt Phil Torres. He has sought out the best coaching possible and looks forward to passing on his skills and knowledge to his students.

Manny Rocha with his striking coach Mike Winkeljohn

Manny is teaching beginner friendly classes at Smash San Jose 5 days a week! Boxing at 7:30pm on Monday & Wednesday and 6:30pm on Fridays and Kickboxing on Tuesday & Thursday at 6:30pm. Kids Kickboxing and boxing coming soon. All the classes at Smash focus on providing you with a great workout, learning something and most importantly having FUN!

Manny is now just as sought after for his personal training services at Smash as his striking skills. Manny specializes in helping women and men reach their fitness goals through motivating and affordable personal training sessions. His experience as a Personal Trainer with Golds Gym coupled with his versatile martial arts background makes for unique and fun fitness training sessions. He is a very popular trainer so call soon while he still has openings!

Smash Gyms San Jose will offer the same great fitness and martial arts classes we offer in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara! Every class is taught by experienced professionals for a unique fitness and social experience that will allow you to reach your physical and mental potential. Smash Gyms instructors take a systematic and beginner friendly approach to teaching, with a focus on the individual needs of each student. Smash instructors are excited to help you reach your personal goals!

After School Martial Arts & Tutoring Available for youths in addition to world class martial arts instruction.

To accommodate everyone’s needs we offer monthly memberships, annual memberships, drop in, and prepay options. We have special discounted rates for Police, Firefighters, Teachers, Students and Military Service Members.

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Patrick Kong in another dominating performance!

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Smash Gyms' 3-time US Open Champ Brian Kuhn

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Anyone Can Learn Kickboxing! Beginner Friendly!

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Smash helps Wrestlers Succesfully Transition to BJJ

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Kids Judo!

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Right Across the Street From Eastridge Mall!

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